Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York joined about 50 people in a ceremony to rename a Long Island street after native son Scott Beigel, a teacher who was killed while protecting students during the Feb. 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, speaking at an International Youth Day event, urged young people to make citizen’s arrests of Kenyans suspected of corruption, telling them that “the power is in your hands to end this vice in this country.”
Charles Ballay, the district attorney in Plaquemines Parish, La., demanded a portable toilet for prosecutors in his office, saying the restrooms haven’t worked since July 26 because of plumbing problems and that he spent days waiting in vain for a maintenance crew to make repairs.
David Missal, 24, a German man who was studying at Beijing’s Tsinghua University until Chinese immigration authorities canceled his student visa and gave him a week to leave the country, said he thinks the move was linked to his reporting on the plight of jailed human-rights lawyers for a journalism class.
Ken Balcomb, founder of the Center for Whale Research, said he was relieved to see that an orca is back to feeding and frolicking with her pod after she carried her dead calf on her head for more than two weeks, an image of grief that drew international attention.
Gary Tuggle, Baltimore’s police commissioner, said he has “zero tolerance” for the behavior shown in a video during which an officer, who has since been suspended, punches a man at least a half-dozen times during a sidewalk encounter.
Col. Jonathan Binsar Sianipar of the Indonesian army said a 12-year-old boy was the only passenger found alive after a small commercial plane crashed in a mountainous region of Papua province, killing the other eight people aboard.
Corey Brown, a Massachusetts State Police trooper responding to a call about a dog dashing through Interstate 291 traffic in Springfield, grabbed a stuffed pink teddy bear from his cruiser and used it to lure the Doberman pinscher, which was returned to its owner.
Scotty Finnegan, a deputy in the Chisago County, Minn., sheriff ’s office, rescued five women in an inflatable, rainbow-patterned unicorn raft that had gotten stuck in the weeds of a lake, throwing a rope out to the women and pulling the raft to the dock.